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  1. North Queensland Rainfall and Flooding, December 2025 to January 2026
  2. Disaster Recovery Allowance

How to manage your Nth Qld Rainfall and Flooding, December 2025 to January 2026 - Disaster Recovery Allowance payment

You need to tell us if your circumstances change as this may affect your payment.

  1. Prepare to transfer to Age Pension
  2. Transfer to Age Pension

How to apply to transfer to Age Pension

If you already get an eligible payment, we’ll invite you to apply to transfer to Age Pension. This will be 13 weeks before you reach Age Pension age.

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  2. Ex-Carer Allowance (Child) Health Care Card

What you get with an Ex-Carer Allowance (Child) Health Care Card

The Ex-Carer Allowance (Child) Health Care Card gives you discounts.

  1. Prepare to transfer to Age Pension
  2. Transfer to Age Pension

Which payments are eligible for transfer to Age Pension

If you get an eligible payment, we’ll invite you to apply to transfer to Age Pension.

  1. Prepare to transfer to Age Pension
  2. Transfer to Age Pension

How to transfer to Age Pension online

Complete the following steps to transfer to Age Pension. Before you start, check if you can get it.

  1. How to manage your allowance
  2. Travel outside Australia

When and how to tell us about overseas travel if you get Carer Allowance

When you get Carer Allowance, you may need to tell us if you or the person you care for are leaving Australia.

  1. How to manage your allowance
  2. Reviews

Medical reviews when you get Carer Allowance

If you’re getting Carer Allowance, we may do a medical review of the person you care for from time to time.

  1. Caring for someone
  2. Most useful information

Medical Certificate for Carer Payment (for a child under 16 years of age) - Extension and Reclaim of Episodic Care/Extension of Short Term Care form (SA395)

Use this form to extend short term or episodic care for a child younger than 16 you get Carer Payment for or to reclaim Episodic Carer Payment.

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  2. Centrelink online account help guides

Centrelink online account help - Request to transfer carer payments for a child to an adult

How to request to transfer your Carer Payment and Carer Allowance payments from a child to an adult care receiver.

  1. Carer Allowance
  2. How to manage your allowance

Adjusted taxable income for Carer Allowance

We use your adjusted taxable income to work out if you can get Carer Allowance.

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